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Show PARK RECORD SECTION B Park Record Thursday, February 28, 1991 Page B1 sipaDn&Trs Briefs Spring soccer sign-up The sign-up period for the Park City Recreation Department's Depart-ment's spring soccer leagues has begun. Players who registered in the fall will remain re-main on the same team. New players may register for open spots at the Park City Racquet Club. New teams will be formed form-ed if nucessary. Registration ends March 8. For more information infor-mation call the racquet club at 649-8080. Youth volleyball kicks off The Park City Recreation Dept. has initiated a youth club volleyball program. High school students are invited to put together volleyball teams and compete for 10 weeks. Registration ends March 15, and play starts March 27. For more information call 649-8080. Monticello Triathlon The Monticello (Utah) Recreation Department has slated the Sixth Annual Blue Mountain-to-Canyonlands Triathlon for March 9. The event includes a 3.8-mile cross-country ski leg in the Blue Mountains, a 35-mile bike trek from Monticello to Newspaper Rock State Park, and a six-mile run down Indian In-dian Creek Canyon. Racers can enter as individuals in-dividuals or as members of three-person teams. For a race application or for information call or write to the Monticello City Recreation Dept., P.O. Box 1102, Monticello, Mon-ticello, Ut. 84535. Phone: (801) 587-2029. ParkWest lessons ParkWest is offering a special five-week program of ski lessons for locals. The lessons, slated for 9-to-noon on March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30, include in-clude video analysis, moguls and racing for skiers of all ability levels. The lessons cost $80, and a five-day ski pass can be purchased for an additional addi-tional $60. For more information informa-tion call the ParkWest Sports Desk at 649-5400. Race workers needed Volunteers are needed for the NCAA Cross Country Ski Championships Feb. 28 and March 2 at Jeremy Ranch. Workers are needed to help out in the start and finish areas and to work as course controllers. Interested parties should be prepared to work from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Dave Hanscom, at 649-3213, has more information. Youth Sports Board meeting The Youth Sports Advisory Board meets March 6 at the City Park Recreation Building. A public input session, ses-sion, during which citizens may voice ideas on Park City's youth sports programs, will be held starting at 6 p.m. Miners at Regions The Park City High School boys basketball team plays their first region tourney game at 2 p.m. Feb. 28 at Snow College in Ephraim. The Miners meet South Summit, the region's top-ranked team. Boarders smoke ParkWest half Kids hit Idaho races In Junior Olympic Qualifier slalom races Feb. 23-24 at Sun Valley, local racers Heather Circo and John Bloomberg skied formidably. for-midably. Circo, 18, finished second in her age group in the first race and won the second race. The performance was a breakthrough for the Park City Ci-ty Ski Team skier, who has excelled in all events but the slalom in recent years. "She's had a tough time with slalom throughout her whole career," said PCST coach Jim Clifford. Clif-ford. "She finally put it together and skied four outstanding runs of slalom tat Sun Valley." Bloomberg, a Park City resident who now skis for Rowmark Academy, won the Jl (age 17-18) race Feb. 23 and finished fourth Feb. 24. The win lifted Bloomberg to a second-place tie with PCST skier skier C.J. Baltz in the point standings stan-dings for the Junior Olympic qualifiers, with three races super G's at ParkWest this weekend remaining. re-maining. The top two skiers after those races will go to the Junior Olympics. B.J. Perry also skied well for the PCST at Sun Valley, notching fifth-and fifth-and eighth-place finishes in the two races. Clifford said the performances perfor-mances consisted of "good, solid skiing ski-ing from B.J. It was a real good breakthrough for him, too." Meanwhile, the Park City Ski Team's youngest skiers were competing com-peting Feb. 23 in a J4 (age 11-12) slalom race at snowbird. Katie Shackelford won the girls J4 race. Annie Wasilewski, Cat Elliott and Sara Coelho came in fourth, seventh and eighth, respectively. ParkWest racer Elizabeth Jones finished fourth. PCST skiers swept third through sixth places in the boys J4 race. Scott Brandon, Whalen Louis, Rhett Christensen, Michael Shirf and Lars Johnson finished second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively. The races were run in a dual-slalom dual-slalom format, providing the youngsters a rare opportunity to race head-to-head. "It was so much fun having a dual course because it's so different from a regular race for the kids.. .it's so exciting," said PCST coach Erika Whittaker. .. Ww4""'y 'S,:. Butts captures the Birkebeiner Ingrid Butts of Park City finished first in the prestigious Birkebeiner cross-country ski race Feb. 23 in Hayward, Wisconsin. Butts, 27, finished the marathon in two hours, 15 minutes, 28.5 seconds, to lead four U.S. Ski Team members who swept the top four spots in the women's race. Betsy Youngman of Cleveland, Ohio, was second in 2:16.10.5. Leslie Thompson of Stowe, Vt., and Dorcas Denhartog of Park City finished third and fourth, respectively. "We skied the way we wanted to, using bike racing tactics, as each of us kept switching the lead," Butts said. "Coming down to the final Utes host NCAA races at Jeremy, Park City The nation's best collegiate skiers will compete for individual and team honors at the Park City Ski Area and at Jeremy Ranch when the University Universi-ty of Utah hosts the 1991 NCAA Ski Championships Feb. 27- March 2. One hundred-sixty athletes representing 20 schools are expected to compete. The University of Utah Ski Team hopes to use the hometown advantage advan-tage to dislodge the defending NCAA-champion University of Vermont. Ver-mont. Before 1989, the University of Intermountain Jr. Team includes 4 PCST skiers Four Park City Ski Team racers have been selected to the Intermountain Intermoun-tain Junior Team. The team consists of the top 10 junior racers in the Intermountain Region, based on the skiers' results in Western Region FIS races this season. The PCST skiers chosen were Greg Aldrich, 18; Sandi Ferre, 15; Heather Circo, 18; and Rachel Salomon, 18. Circo is a repeat selec Alex Wells stretch, Betsy Youngman was on my tail, and I put it into gear. I really real-ly wanted to win this race, because it's such a prestigious marathon race." Austrian Manfred NagI captured the men's race in 2:01.26.5. Another Austrian, Wolfgang Ritzinger, finished second in 2:01.33.5. The top American finisher was Audun Endestad of Fairbanks, Alaska, who came in fourth. The Birkebeiner, which attracted over 6,300 racers this year, is North America's premier cross-country ski race. The first Birkebeiner, held in Hayward in 1973, drew just 54 racers. Utah had won six titles in nine years, but Vermont has taken the title the past two seasons. All alpine competitions will be held on Willy's Run at Park City. Cross-country events will take place at Jeremy Ranch. The schedule calls for men's and women's giant slalom races Feb. 27; men's 10K freestyle and women's 5K freestyle Feb. 28; men's and women's slalom March 1; men's 20K classic and women's 15K classic March 2. tion; Aldrich, Ferre and Salomon are first-time members. "It's a real promotion," said PCST head Bob Marsh. "These athletes have performed quite well in the Western Region FIS Series. It's exciting to have four out of 10 skiers on the team from Park City." As members of the team, the four skiers will receive jackets, as well as complementary lift tickets and. entry fees at all Intermountain competitions. Many of Utah's top snowboarders gathered at ParkWest last weekend for the first two competitions in the Utah Snowboard Series '91. The boarders did battle in slalom races Feb. 23 on the Ricochet run, then went for "big air" in the Feb. 24 half-pipe competition. The Series concludes with additional slalom and half-pipe competitions at ParkWest the weekend of March 23-24. Local snowboarders Sheryl Sullivan and Cammy Potter swept .the top two spots in the Feb. 23 women's slalom race. Sullivan won the first run by more than two seconds, then held on to beat Potter, who was faster on the second run by a second-and-a-half. No other competitor com-petitor came within eight seconds of the the top two, both of whom compete com-pete for the the newly formed ParkWest Snowboard Team. Potter, a former NCAA ski racer, said the course was "awesome; the snow was good. It was real long and the gates were set real well." In the men's race, the two fastest riders Thomas Miller and Brenner Adams represented the Salty Peaks team of Salt Lake City. But ParkWest riders Scott Alden and Brett Lockwood also fared well, finishing third and fifth, respective- McKinney heralds Express' coming Former U.S. Ski Team member Tamara McKinney was in town Feb. 28 "to get the word out" regarding the Jimmy Heuga's Mazda Ski Express' Ex-press' March 23 stop at the Park City Ski Area. The Ski Express, according to McKinney, visits 31 ski areas nationwide nation-wide to raise money for the Jimmy Heuga Center program for multiple sclerosis patients. At Park City, three-person coed teams will compete to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Ski Express Ex-press finals April 10-14 in Vail. Each team must first line up a minimum of $1000 in sponsorship, to be donated to the Jimmy Heuga Center. Twenty-five percent of all proceeds from Park City will go toward scholarships to send Utah residents with multiple sclerosis to the center. The competition includes a morning morn-ing ski-around, during which teams must stop at a series of checkpoints on the mountain. In the afternoon dual g.s. races will be held. The weekend's festivities also include in-clude a March 22 race clinic with Citizens finish up... ? t V Bob Woody reaches to plant his poles in an 18-km cross-country cross-country ski race at Jeremy Ranch. For more on the race the final event in the 1991 Wasatch Citizens Series see page B4. - pipe Andy Hicks of Park City finished second in the boys 1214. The next day the boarders moved down the mountain to the half-pipe, where they executed a variety of tricks and turns similar to those seen in a skateboard half-pipe. The judges used a three-point system for each "hit," or trip up the wall by the riders. A simple turn earned one point. "Catching air" was good for two points, and "really good extended air, or an invert, or a J-tear," was worth three points, according ac-cording to judge Nick Zierden. Many of the more difficult tricks involved grabbing the snowboard while airborne. Riders also executed inverted tricks, in which they were required (for liability reasons) to keep at least one hand on the snow. Some boarders struggled on this day, since hard snow on the half-pipe made edging difficult. "It was real icy this morning and it stayed icy... because it was icy you were apprehensive ap-prehensive to go all out," said Bridgjtte Price of Park City. Price didn't let the ice slow her much as she coasted to an easy win in the women's half-pipe competition. competi-tion. She easily outpointed second-place second-place finisher Jennifer Schneeweis. Ginger Butler of Park City was third. Salty Peaks riders Chris Bingham and Brenner Adams finished first and second, respectively, in the men's half -pipe competition. Rick Bower of Park City finished third in the boys 12-14, and Lockwood finished third in the men 19-24. ParkWest organized the Utah Snowboard Series to help fill a need for more snowboard competition in Utah. Before this weekend, the only competitions had been in the Utah Winter Games, and many outstanding outstan-ding snowboarders were eager to compete. Competitors in the Utah Snowboard series "catch air" in ParkWest's half-pipe. Fifty-seven competitors 47 men and 10 women took part in the half-pipe event. McKinney and Holly Flanders, and free Mazda test drives March 23-24. McKinney saidtthat, win or lose, Ski Express participants have fun. "It's a fun thing," she said. "It's a great way for people to get out and have fun competing, and it's a great cause." "At every event I've been to, after the race is over everyone's smiling," smil-ing," she added. Last year ten teams took part in the Park City event. This year, McKinney and other Ski Express organizers hope to see 25 or more teams involved. According to local administrator Jay Gurmankin, teams can sign up as late as the morning mor-ning of March 23. "We want people to contact us and get together more teams," Gurmankin said. For more information, he can be contacted at 1-533-8383. The Jimmy Heuga Center was founded in 1985 by former U.S. Ski Team member Jimmy Heuga, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. One goal of the center is to help m.s. victims vic-tims to live full and active lives. |
